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Baseball Game at Monroe Canceled

Mother Nature has claimed its first victim of the baseball season - the TC3 baseball game at Monroe Community College scheduled for Saturday, March 7 has been canceled. No make-up date has been scheduled yet. The Panthers now look to open the season with the Spring Break trip to Long Island March 16-19.

Spring Baseball Clinics

Pfund Adds All-Region Honors

June 12, 2014

For the fourth time in the last five years, Tompkins Cortland Community College has an all-region baseball player. Sophomore Brian Pfund (East Hampton H.S./Montauk) was chosen to the all-region team by coaches in the NJCAA Region III.

Pfund was also named to the Mid-State Athletic Conference all-conference team. He started all 32 games for the Panthers, primarily as the team’s center fielder and lead-off hitter. He hit a team-best .365 with a slugging percentage of .552. He had five assists from the outfield, the most on the team, to go with 80 putouts. Between runs scored and runs batted in, he had a role in more than a third of TC3’s runs.

Pfund is the fifth TC3 player named all region since baseball was reinstated as a varsity sport in 2007.

Pfund Named All-Conference

June 5, 2014

Tompkins Cortland Community College sophomore Brian Pfund (East Hampton H.S./Montauk) has been named to the Mid-State Athletic Conference all-conference baseball team. He was the lone TC3 selection to the 15-player team. Voting was done by the coaches from the six conference teams.

Pfund was TC3’s center fielder and lead-off hitter, starting in all 32 games. He led the Panthers in several offensive categories, including batting average (.365), hits (35), doubles (8), triple (2), home runs (2), stolen bases (9), slugging percentage (.552), and on-base percentage (.419). He scored nearly a quarter of TC3’s runs, crossing the plate 24 times (the team total was 101). He also drove in 15, the second most on the team.

It’s the eighth straight year TC3 has been represented on the all-conference team.

Most Putouts (Season)

Most Putouts (Career)

Coaches–Men's Baseball

Ryan Stevens

Head Coach

Ryan Stevens returns to Tompkins Cortland Community College as the new head baseball coach. Stevens, who was an assistant at TC3 from 2006 to 2010, takes over as head coach for the 2014-15 academic year.

Stevens has built an impressive resume since starting his coaching career at TC3. While on the Dryden campus he was the Panthers’ pitching coach and recruiting coordinator, helping build a brand new program into a playoff team. His time at the College coincides with the best four-year stretch in the program’s history, culminating with an NJCAA regional playoff appearance in his final season.

In 2008 he entered the world of professional baseball, taking a job with the Texarkana Gunslingers of the Independent Professional Continental Baseball league. After two years and a league championship with the Gunslingers, Stevens took his first head coaching job with the Alpine Cowboys of the Pecos League, an independent professional league based in Texas with teams through the southwest. In five seasons as the manager of the Cowboys, Stevens has led the team to the postseason each year, capturing two league championships and posting an overall record of 208-119. He was named the Pecos League Manager of the Year, and has helped more than 50 players earn promotions to higher levels of professional baseball, including one, Jonathan Edwards, who is on a major league roster (Texas Rangers, pitcher). Two other of his players signed contracts with Major League affiliates: David Valesente (Pittsburgh Pirates organization, catcher) and Andrew Wall (Washington Nationals organization, pitcher).

Stevens, who also worked as an associate scout in the West Texas region for the Washington Nationals, served as an assistant coach at Ithaca College during the 2013-14 school year. He is a Dryden native, graduating from Dryden High before playing collegiate baseball at SUNY Cobleskill and Frostburg State University (Maryland).

Contact: rs049@TC3.edu, 607-844-8222, Ext.4493

Jarrod Surine

Infield Coach

Contact: athletics@TC3.edu

Billy Crowe

Catching Coach/Bench Coach

Contact: athletics@TC3.edu

Colby Gee

Hitting Coach

Contact: athletics@TC3.edu

Corey Hollenbeck

Strength and Conditioning Coach/Bench Coach

Contact: athletics@TC3.edu

Alan Kress

Student Assistant

Contact: athletics@TC3.edu

Highlights–2014 Men's Baseball

Panthers Open Region Play with Split

Sunday, April 06, 2014

The Tompkins Cortland Community College baseball team opened up Region III pay Sunday with a doubleheader split with Corning Community College. The Panthers dropped game one 5-1 before winning the second game by a final score of 14-6. TC3 is now 1-1 in Region III and 1-5 overall. Corning stands at 3-7 overall and 1-1 in regional play.

The opener was scoreless until the third, when Corning took advantage of a pair of errors to score three times. The Panthers got one back in the bottom of the fourth when Brian Pfund (East Hampton H.S./Montauk) singled with two outs, and eventually came around to score on a wild pitch. The score remained 3-1 until Corning tacked on single runs in the sixth and seventh. The Panthers put runners on in each of the final three innings, but couldn’t score, making the final 5-1.

Pitcher Zach Dufel (Amsterdam H.S./Amsterdam) was the hard-luck loser, allowing four hits and just two earned runs while striking out eight. Offensively, TC3 managed just three hits in game one. Game two saw the Panthers pass that total in the first inning.

After pitcher Tyler Mattoon (Lansing H.S./Lansing) set Corning down in order in the top of the first, the home team went to work. The first four batters had hits, and all would come around and score. A walk, a hit batsman, and a wild pitch contributed to a fifth run scoring, making it 5-0 after the first inning. Corning scored an unearned run in the second, but TC3 went back on the offensive in the bottom of the second, scoring five more runs on four hits and three Corning errors to put the game away. The visitors would score three in the third and another in the fourth, but TC3 cemented the win with a run in the third and three in the fifth. Corning scored the game’s final run in the sixth, making the final score 14-6.

Mattoon earned the win, striking out five while allowing four earned runs. All nine Panthers in the lineup had hits, with Chris Abreu (In-Tech Academy/Bronx), Davyon Dozier (Brooks Debartolo Collegiate H.S./Tampa, Fla.), Malik Fogg (Mount Vernon H.S./Mount Vernon), Steve Tatich (Owego Free Academy/Owego), and Sam Allen (Moravia H.S./Moravia) each collecting two hits. Fogg and Wilson Montalvo (Newburgh Free Academy/Bronx) each drove in three runs, and Dozier led the team with four runs scored.